Weekend Update 2/24/19

[up1950s]

http://www.northamericanrails.com/various_freight_cars#Next

[altohorn25]

Working on a NC&StL caboose tonight. Finished painting and lettering. I still need to weather it, paint the couplers, and add window glass. Got the decals from a guy off ebay; been looking for caboose decals for quite a while.

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[Joetrain59]

Nate, is that the old Walthers bay window caboose? If so, you might want to wait for Bluford Shops bay window cabooses.
 Just sayin'.
 Joe D

[wm3798]

That looks more like an old Trix or ConCor shell....

[altohorn25]

I believe the donor caboose was originally a Model Power car.  The end steps are still pretty big, but I did change out the end rails and roofwalk with gold metal models parts.

[davefoxx]

Working on a NC&StL caboose tonight. Finished painting and lettering. I still need to weather it, paint the couplers, and add window glass. Got the decals from a guy off ebay; been looking for caboose decals for quite a while.

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I'm not trying to disparage your work.  Believe me, I'm no Picasso or a DKS.  But, it looks to me like the paint went on really thick.  Look at the rivets, the paint in the corners of the ladder rungs, and the paint on the endrails.  I would also suggest cutting the decal film much closer to the lettering.

Hope this helps,
DFF

[Mark W]

My fiancee came out to help us pack up the layout after our show last weekend.  Before that, she took the Turbo Train around for one last ride.   
She just loves blowing that horn! 

[DKS]

She just loves blowing that horn!

Must... not... reply...

[soo]

Now, Elaine you have manually inflate the auto pilot. The tube is located right at his belt buckle...

[MVW]

Definitely too many train shots in that video. 

Mark W FTW.

Jim

[bnsfdash8]

My first attempt at printing a full freight car on the Photon. I'm pretty happy with how the details came out. I'll probably turn the model into separate pieces to help eliminate some of the printing lines and warping.

[Mark W]

My first attempt at printing a full freight car on the Photon. I'm pretty happy with how the details came out. I'll probably turn the model into separate pieces to help eliminate some of the printing lines and warping.

That's awesome! 

I'm not sure how you're modeling and then supporting and slicing, but if you do it 'by numbers' you should be able to eliminate those diagonals. 
By that, I mean rotate parts 90 degrees by typing in 90 degrees in the rotation tool.  Move a part 3 units by typing in 3 units.  'Free-hand' ridged bodies as little as possible.   It might take a little longer, but your faces will then be oriented exactly in plane with the LCD grid.

[hegstad1]

I'm pretty close to finishing the Carpenter Paper Company for Missoula.  This was an experimental project using the Silhouette cutter.  Still a few details to add.

[diezmon]

I'm pretty close to finishing the Carpenter Paper Company for Missoula.  This was an experimental project using the Silhouette cutter.  Still a few details to add.

wow, that turned out great.   I bought a Cricut a few months ago, and ended up returning it.  It did a terrible job at cutting windows. 

[diezmon]

I'm working on finishing some passenger cars for my GN Gopher project.

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And I need to finish up some details on this guy.
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